WORKSHOP ON FISH OF CONSERVATION AND BYCATCH RELEVANCE (WKCOFIBYC; outputs from 2020 meeting) VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 57 ICES SCIENTIFIC REPORTS RAPPORTS SCIENTIFIQUES DU CIEM ICES INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEA CIEM CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL POUR L’EXPLORATION DE LA MER International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Conseil International pour l’Exploration de la Mer H.C. Andersens Boulevard 44-46 DK-1553 Copenhagen V Denmark Telephone (+45) 33 38 67 00 Telefax (+45) 33 93 42 15 www.ices.dk [email protected] ISSN number: 2618-1371 This document has been produced under the auspices of an ICES Expert Group or Committee. The contents therein do not necessarily represent the view of the Council. © 2021 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). For citation of datasets or conditions for use of data to be included in other databases, please refer to ICES data policy. ICES Scientific Reports Volume 3 | Issue 57 WORKSHOP ON FISH OF CONSERVATION AND BYCATCH RELEVANCE (WKCOFIBYC) Recommended format for purpose of citation: ICES. 2021. Workshop on Fish of Conservation and Bycatch Relevance (WKCOFIBYC). ICES Scientific Reports. 3:57. 125 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.8194 Editors Maurice Clarke Authors Sara Bonanomi • Archontia Chatzispyrou • Maurice Clarke • Bram Couperus • Jim Ellis • Ruth Fernández • Ailbhe Kavanagh • Allen Kingston • Vasiliki Kousteni • Evgenia Lefkaditou • Henn Ojaveer Wolfgang Nikolaus Probst • Anna Rindorf • Guðjón Sigurðsson • Julio Valeiras • Rita Vasconcelos Håkan Wennhage ii | ICES SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 3:57 | ICES Contents i Executive summary .......................................................................................................................iii ii Expert group information ..............................................................................................................iv iii Terms of reference (ToRs) ............................................................................................................. v 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 1 2 Lists of fishes of conservation interest .......................................................................................... 2 2.1 Regional Seas Conventions (RSCs) ................................................................................... 2 2.1.1 OSPAR Commission .......................................................................................................... 2 2.1.2 Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)....................................................................................... 4 2.1.3 Barcelona Convention ...................................................................................................... 5 2.1.4 Bucharest Convention ...................................................................................................... 6 2.2 International hard law texts ............................................................................................. 8 2.2.1 EU Habitats Directive ....................................................................................................... 8 2.2.2 EU CFP Prohibited Species List ......................................................................................... 8 2.2.3 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ................................................................................................................... 11 2.2.4 North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) ....................................................... 12 2.3 International treaties and soft law texts ........................................................................ 14 2.3.1 Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals ....................... 14 2.3.2 Bern Convention ............................................................................................................ 17 2.4 National law (non-EU member states)........................................................................... 22 2.4.1 United Kingdom (UK) ..................................................................................................... 22 2.4.2 Iceland ............................................................................................................................ 27 2.5 Scientific/monitoring lists .............................................................................................. 28 2.5.1 WGECO........................................................................................................................... 28 2.5.2 EU programme for data collection in the fisheries sector ............................................. 30 2.5.3 Species received in WGBYC data calls ............................................................................ 47 2.6 Red lists of extinction risk .............................................................................................. 51 2.6.1 IUCN Global Red List ...................................................................................................... 51 2.6.2 European Red Lists of fishes .......................................................................................... 51 2.6.3 Red List of Mediterranean species ................................................................................. 54 2.6.4 USA and Canadian Legislation ........................................................................................ 56 2.6.5 ICCAT .............................................................................................................................. 56 3 ICES fish biodiversity lists ............................................................................................................ 57 3.1 ToR a: Assessment lists for fish conservation/biodiversity assessment ........................ 57 3.2 ToR b: Lists for by-catch advice ...................................................................................... 58 4 Assessment units for listed fish species ...................................................................................... 60 5 Fish of conservation concern....................................................................................................... 61 5.1 Approaches to assessment of species on the list .......................................................... 62 5.2 Ecosystem overviews ..................................................................................................... 63 5.3 Dedicated fish biodiversity assessments ....................................................................... 63 6 List of fish species of bycatch concern ........................................................................................ 68 6.1 Fisheries overviews ........................................................................................................ 69 6.2 Dedicated bycatch advice .............................................................................................. 69 7 Conclusions and next steps ......................................................................................................... 74 8 References ................................................................................................................................... 75 Annex 1: List of participants.......................................................................................................... 77 Annex 2: WKCOFIBYC Comprehensive Species List....................................................................... 78 Annex 3: RAL and RBL by ecoregion.............................................................................................. 89 ICES | WKCOFIBYC 2021 | iii i Executive summary WKCOFIBYC was convened to develop a list of species of conservation and/or bycatch interest, that could be used to prioritise and plan for future work within ICES. WKCOFIBYC compiled a list of fish species (including non-commercial and commercial) of conservation concern (threat- ened, sensitive, or already listed in legislation) that could be included in future assessments by ICES. This is termed the Comprehensive Species List (CSL). This list is composed of international and national hard law, along with national hard law designations, in addition to relevant red lists of extinction risk and various academic exercises to identify sensitive species. For the first time, through this workshop, a list of priority sensitive species for future conservation/biodiver- sity-concern assessment has been developed: the regional assessment lists (RALs). The group also compiled ecoregion-level lists (regional bycatch lists or ⁠RBLs) of fish species of bycatch con- cern, which can be used for future planning. To avoid duplication, the RALs and RBLs exclude species for which ICES or other bodies already provide quantitative assessments. Additionally, the RBLs exclude most remaining species already advised upon by ICES or equivalent bodies. A set of guidelines for establishing assessment units are presented in the report. This process started by identifying 597 species from the northeast Atlantic and the Mediterra- nean, including some brackish water and diadromous species. However, 193 of these species were deemed not relevant, mainly due to not being representative of the main fish fauna of the regions. The list is structured by relevance, geography, and according